In reply to a post by phil_w73:

Not fibre, but just as an example - we have 3 standard BT ADSL lines bonded using routers/service from http://www.sharedband.com

Hmm.

Between 49 and 299 GBP one-off router fee PER LINE and then a 10/20GBP monthly fee?

I kinda prefer paying a one-off charge of 160GBP for a single piece of hardware with no additional monthly fees or bandwidth limits.

I don't actually do anything that couldn't handle a single disconnect while my lines converge and I'd hope that anyone who needs such availability is using a dedicated leased line with a high availability SLA, not consumer broadband services.

Overpriced gimmick IMHO. For pretty much every application imaginable the kind of load balancing I use would be absolutely fine.

I'm starting to think my service is bonded properly, whoever my actual provider are and whatever they are doing sounds right. My line is essentially 1 line across the internet as far as I can work out. The provider has a device that takes traffic coming in destined for my singular public LAN IP and load balances across my 3 lines to my router, this traffic has a 1 source and destination IP and uses the 3 IP's across the lines purely for routing. If anyone knows of a technical reason why this would not work please let me know.

Hey helix_quazer,
Quick question, do you get a separate bill from another company (not BT) for a bonded service?
Or infact, do BT itemise an extra service on your bill for bonding? Having some more details on what you are actually being sold might help come to a conclusion on this.

Cheers,
flipdee

Nope, as far as I can tell I have 1 bill for 1 product which they have said is a bonded FTTC line. Altogether I should be getting UP TO 120 mb/s down and 30 mb/s up.

Excuse me for being nosy, but is there an "exact" product listed on the bill?
BT are very much a we sell what we list as a published product company, so in effect, what is listed on your bill should very much be published somewhere with exact details on what you get for your money.

cheers,
flipdee

Sorry for the lack of information but as far as I can see it says bonded FTTC solution, I am going to look into this more to see if there isn't a wholesaler sitting on the other end of my line or something, so far I have however just been dealing with BT.

BT used to resell Shareband, who were mentioned somewhere in the tread, software and products for their bonded solutions but I'm not sure if they still do.

Ok just to add a tuppence worth here.

Can you post your Cisco config on here?

If not can you confirm the following:

Are all your WICs are VDSL compatable EHWICs?

Do all the FTTC connections have the same credentials and therefore only needing to use one dialer?

Are you using the correct config?

interface Ethernet0/0/0
description FTTC2
no ip address
duplex auto
speed auto
pppoe enable group global
pppoe-client dial-pool-number 1


interface Ethernet0/1/0
description FTTC1
no ip address
duplex auto
speed auto
pppoe enable group global
pppoe-client dial-pool-number 1


interface Dialer0
description FTTC Dialer
mtu 1492
ip address negotiated
ip nat outside
ip virtual-reassembly
encapsulation ppp
dialer pool 1
dialer-group 1
ppp authentication chap callin
ppp chap hostname xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ppp chap password xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ppp multilink

I have 1 WIC card which is a VDSL compatible EHWIC, the other 2 lines are just plugged into spare ethernet ports on the 2911. The config is correct as you have described but I have a separate set of login credentials for each line with separate diallers.

In reply to a post by helix_quazer:

I have 1 WIC card which is a VDSL compatible EHWIC, the other 2 lines are just plugged into spare ethernet ports on the 2911. The config is correct as you have described but I have a separate set of login credentials for each line with separate diallers.

What does show ppp multilink tell you?